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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
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Durham
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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